Distributing device.



onn stimmt, for nommen Weens, ILLINOIS.

Y DSTEREBUITING DEVICE.

Speiiietionof Letters Patent;

Patented Oct. 5, 12H5.

apparaat awa nefnber 4, i913. 'semi No. 804,563.

To all V'w from t cam-em Be Vit known thntfl;L donn' C. Sirzriznn'ra acitizen of vthe United States', residing at Hubbard l/lloods,V in theconnty ci "Cook and State oi' Illinois, have 'invented oertainnw anduseful 'lmpioteineiits .in l)istribntin'g Devi-ces, oi ivhich the.following is Aa specification.

ln the distribution or asserting of papers or letters when there arenuinerousncofnpait ments in which the material must be placed,

much time is lostv'in the distribution of "the papers by reason `ot thefazit that all .of the compartments are not solocated relative' to asingle' point that they beonteniehtly reached by an operatbr. The trstobject' of my invention, therefore7A is .to "r'otid distributing devicewith' the compartments so arranged that the material to be tilediny beplaced therein by asingle operator, and yet a large niiinber ofconipa1""t i`n'ents in ay be @replays-a without e@ ming are perafsr toShifters p0 11e-any As all paliers distributed init-hin 'the separatecompartments ane Iot .of the' saine size, and since .the papeisin eatlicompartment usually 'filed together, the ils method or getting papers eranrefeesizes in tion to be filed `is to shaketlierir dtin or otherwisearrange theflv S`l that a corre- Spor-ning Corner of au' fh papers ,iste; getliei'",l whereupon the pape may "be bild through or by ,means ofone r'ner. The shaking c1own,hovte'ver,of papers or @litterent sizes andof dif'ei'ent grades, is "in no Wise a -cer'tai'n method, andtre'qerttly an important erhecornes lost e because its frictiimalContact With acentp'aplers prevents fit from" slipping' ,Intoegis'tering position, and' When the'` papers are bound or lelftheeci-ner' or .eaelrfpaper is not ca i he with the Corners of 'the otherpapers d even not lost theJ misplaced paper' ,cannot he turnedtore'adil'y. y

Another object of my invention, therefore, is to ,so forni ,iiii'distling' devicey whereby thepapersvvhen in said compartment as'snine positn' with one corner of' each paperin' regist alinement with onecorner ofevery Y paper, and .the e" ,l'velnoed from ,the compai-tinentthey" eyinposjfr'tion to' :receive the. or dhp Hout the shaking down prfocess ashereto ore nien, tioned.-`

Still a further object of my invention' is to obtain a compartmentwherein one corner of each paper led therein will extend to one cornerof the compartment so that all of the papers in one compartment havevone Corner in registration With one corner of every other paper filedtherein so that filed papers of assorted sizes may be conveniently heldor bound whereby they may :be readily referred `to and turned in thesame manner as the pages of a bound book. A distributing deviceembodying the novel arrangement of 'the compartments Awhereby eachcompartment is in near proX- 'irnity to the operator, and a. largenumber of compartments 4Illy be embodied in a single distributingdevice, and ,the further 'nj Yel vfeatnr'ep of providing means wherebythe oi .the papers'ivi'llfbe in registen a y inentprodnces a verydesirable and e rci'ent distributing device as shown in the accompanyingdrawing, in which;v

'Fig'inr'e 1 is a perspective View of my iin- .pro'ifed 'distribdtingVdevice; Fig. 2 is a transverse section of any one of the compartfInntsg" Fig'. 3 is a longitudinalsection of any one fof theconip'artments.;` Fig. 4 is a cross's'ection of al modified form ofcompartment.A Y

'Referring now more particularly lto the dravying,- ,the distributingdevice comprises a pliurA ity of compartments and as each compartment`is substantially the saine, as shown in the accompanying drawing, .adescription oi oiie wvill serve ttor all.

A compartment consists .of the side walls l, and Walls 5 and a bottoniWa'll. The bottom' Wall" is angularly disposed being attached to .oneofthe side Walls near its to'p edge and to the other side wall near theof each compartment so yas to' prevent any papers placed therein fromcurling up over the edge or falling out of the compartnient. Thesecompartments are so arranged that the bottom Wall is not only `angnlarlydisposed between the side Walls 'but the bottom walls are' furtherVinclined by having' -one end of the" ycompartnfient higher than 'theother end so thatl onefcorner o'fleach compartment is lower 'than theother three corners. The angnlar arrangement of the compartments is bestshoWn in' Fig. `1 wherein `a plurality of compartments are arranged insections, compartments 8, 9, 10 .and llcomprising one section andcompartments 12, 13, 14 and 15 comprising another section. ThecompartinentsS and 12 have a relatively slight longitudinal inclinationof their bottornrwalls but sufficient, however, to 'accomplish 'the'objects of the invention. Compartments 9 and 13 and 10 and 141- arearranged at sub' stantially the same angle as each other but-a greaterlongitudinal angle of inclination be" ing given to their bottom wallsthan the compartments S and 12; whereas'the 4'compartments-11 and 15 arearranged ata still greater angle, nearer the vertical, than arecompartments 10 and 14, so that it may be said that thesuper-imposedcompartments 'of each section are Aarranged substantially on an arc of acircle or c ylinder and the top 'compartments 11 and 15 thereof are,consequently, nearer the lower compartments S and 12 than they would beif their bottoms were disposed in the same plane as the bottomsofcompartments 10 and 14.

The center section of compartments coinprising three rows of .threecompartments each, has a bottom roiv of compartments 16 setback from thecompartment-s 8 and 12 to provide an entrance space 17 for the operator.-The bottom wallsof the compartment 16 `are arranged at a greaterhorizontal angle than the bottom walls ofthe compartments 8 and 12, butat a less angle than `the bottom wallsof the compartments 9 and 13andare slightly lower than the ,compartments 9 and 13 so as to bringthecompartments 18 and 19 near the entrance space 17 Where the operatorstands. The bottom walls of the compartments 18 and 19 are arranged insubstantially the same plane but at an angle more near the vertical thanare the bottom of the compartments 10 and 14.

tributes with the yright hand.

If the .compartments so far described are not suiiicient in number,additional compartments may be added to the distributing device, such asthe compartments 20, 21 and 22 forming a fourth section but so arrangedthat they are readilvaccessible to the operator standing in the space 17and are preferably upon the right hand side of the cabinet Vfor thereason that the average operator dis- The bottom walls of thecompartments 20, 21 and 22 .are disposed at such an angle as to bringthem conveniently within the reach of the operator.

,- vEach compartment may be provided withk ar stop 7 as heretoforedescribed.

It is sometimes necessaryto fold papers before filing and for thispurpose I provide my .device with folding boards 23 so posii tioned thatthey may be conveniently7 used bythe operator and at the same timeServing to brace three ofthe compartments and affording a sharp edgearound which a paper may-be folded.

Itivill be readily seen by the arrangement of.` the compartments that alarge number of compartments may be used in a single distributing"device and every'icompartment is WithinVV easy reach of the distributerstandingvvithingthe Space; 17. It will furthermore be seen that as thebottom wall of each 4ccmpz'i-rtm'ent is arranged at two angles, npapersplaced within the compartment will ``gravitate to one corner only,consequently,

when .thepapers are thus distributed and it is desired to bind the sametogether for filing, one corner .of everyrpaper ,within each compartmentis in the same-corner relatively with the corresponding corner of ever;other paper and, consequently, the papers may be removed from anycompartment Vand ,bound in their removed position without the necessityofshaking them ,down to bring the corners into registering almement.

,While have herein shown all of the loot-` v tom walls of thecompartments so arranged thatv thelower left hand corner of eachcompartment is lower than the other three cor-` ners oi' eachcompartment, nevertheless, Ido not wish itto be understoodthat I amlimited to sucharrangement, as the -comp'art- 4ments may be so made that"either the left hand or right handlower cornerV may be lower than theother threecorners according .to the method of Vfiling adopted'V by theoperator. In Fig. Lll liavejshown a modified form of constructionwherein one. side wall'meets the bottom Ywall ata right angle hereinshown 'as formed byfa block 23 abutting against one A'so side wall andhaving its side 24 arranged` at right angle to the bottoinwall 6. *Sucha construction bringsthe corner edge at a right angle to the planes ofthe side, surfaces of the lile papers. v

As it is expected to bindk or otherwise' secure the papers at the lowerright hand corner of the same, the cabinet as shown herein is designedto receive the files with the upper surface of the papers down so riooits

that the lower. righthand' corner of each letter will fall in the lowerleft hand corner of eachcompartment, butif the ling system is such vthatthe operator desires to file the papers with the written matter facingupward, then the compartments should be so made' as to bring the lowerright hand corner of veach compartment in the lowest position.-

Having now described my invention, I claim;

` 1. A` distributingdevice having side and I partments super-imposed andset back from each center section being arranged in dierent planes toeach other and from the planes of the bottom walls in the adjacentsections, and a fourth section disposed adjacent one of the end sectionsand comprising a plurality of super-imposed compartments arranged Ytransversely relative to the side sections.

3. A cabinet comprising a plurality of compartments arranged in adjacentsections, two of said sections comprising like arranged compartmentssuper-imposed and having their bottom Walls arranged in differentplanes, the centersection having its compartments super-imposed and setback from the side sections and the bottom walls of each center sectionbeing arranged in different planes to each other and from the planes ofthe bottom walls in the adjacent sections, and a fourth section disposedadjacent one of the end sections and comprising a plurality ofsuper-imposed compartments arranged transversely relative to the sidesections and a folding board within the recess formed by setting backthe center section.

4r. A cabinet comprising a plurality of compartments arranged in threeadjacent sections, the middle section being set back from the sidesections, and each section comprising a plurality of super-imposedcompartmelnts having their bottom walls arranged at different angles andthe bottom wall of each section being disposed at two angles whereby onecorner of said bottom wall is lower than the other three corners.

5. A cabinet comprising a plurality of compartments arranged in threeadjacent sections, the middle section being set back from the sidesections, and each section comprising a plurality of super-imposedcompartments having their bottom walls arranged at different angles andthe bottom wall of each section being disposed at two angles whereby onecorner of said bottom wall is lower than the other three corners, and astop adjacent to the top of the lower wall of each compartment.

6. A distributing device having side and bottom walls and the bottomwall disposed at two Vangles whereby one corner of said bottom wall islower than the other three corners, one of said side walls beingarranged at a right angle to said bottom wall.

JOHN C. SHIRLEY.

Witnesses:

JAMES R. OFFIELD, SADIE M. RYAN.

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